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Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m
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A. Lucien Meyers |
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Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:46:08 +0100 |
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alkibiades@gmx.de (Oliver Scholz):
> "Michael J. Barillier" <blackwolf@pcisys.net> writes:
> [...]
> > I've downloaded w3 v4.0pre.47 and have been getting that nasty
> > ``wrong type argument: stringp, nil'' error[2] that's been mentioned
> > lately.
>
> FWIW, I encountered this error message myself some time ago. In my
> case the backtrace told me that it was related to the font size spec
> in the default.css in w3/etc. I could get rid of the error by changing
> default.css. I don't remember how exactly; it was something with
> removing a "+", or somesuch. A backtrace should tell you more. But I
> don't know if this is a proper solution (I doubt it).
>
> > Anyone have an opinion[3] on W3 vs. emacs-w3m?
>
> IMHO Emacs/W3 feels a lot more emacsish. Well, it is written in Elisp
> anyways. I really wish it would be more actively developed, because
> actually it is my favourite browser. And yes, I know emacs-w3m and I
> use it as a last resort, when Emacs/W3 fails to render a page. I am
> not happy with this, though.
Why not, Oliver? w3m works and works well. w3 does not. Basta.
BTW w3m also works quite well as a stand-alone browser under X.
Have got w3m to render some sites which mozilla would not grok
properly, e. g. http://www.lostworldsinc.com .
Am I a w3m fan? Yes. Why? It works.
Lucien
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- Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m, Michael J. Barillier, 2002/11/03
- Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m, Adam P., 2002/11/03
- Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m, Henrik Enberg, 2002/11/03
- Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m, Oliver Scholz, 2002/11/04
- Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m,
A. Lucien Meyers <=
- Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m, Henrik Enberg, 2002/11/04
- Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m, Oliver Scholz, 2002/11/04
- Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m, Oliver Scholz, 2002/11/04
- Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m, Michael J. Barillier, 2002/11/05
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- Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m, Jay Belanger, 2002/11/05
Re: Holy Wars redux: w3 vs. emacs-w3m, mr.sparkle, 2002/11/04